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CVE-2016-10665

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10665 affects herbivore versions 0.0.3 and below, a packet sniffing and crafting library. The vulnerability stems from its insecure practice of downloading binary resources over HTTP, making it susceptible to Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks. This flaw carries a high severity CVSS score of 8.1, as an attacker on the network could potentially achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) by replacing legitimate resources with malicious ones. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:herbivore_project:herbivore:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.1HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0219 is in the 37th percentile among its peer group of 8,914 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-7r2x-3qcm-8vfwhigh

herbivore downloads Resources over HTTP

Feb 18, 2019

References

github.com / samatt/Herbivore/commit/0a041defc3463e99948e5d2064aef54b2128c5a3
Broken Link
nodesecurity.io / advisories/258
Third Party Advisory